Coyotes

[WillieBoy]

Thanks Q9 for clarifying...i knew someone had mentioned coyotoe/wolves breeding...

 

[herfrds]

bobbi-j the wolves are back on the endangered species again. A judge in Missoulia MT said there can be no hunts until the State of Wyoming falls in line. Big political thing so that is all I'll say about it.

What brought up the wolves was breezy asked if they were still around here because I had said we had seen them several times on our property.

It is just really disturbing to have DH step out of our front door and there are 3 coyotes 30 feet from him. Then have DS step out the same door 6 feet from 2 coyotes.
I have found tracks of a single coyote around my goose pen. Also right behind my chicken house and between the house and chicken house. It just let me know there was just one. I can live with that.
2 or more? No.

DD who is fairly small for her age is not allowed outside after dark because of this.

Oh I found the tracks to that coyote that howled outside DS's window. It was about 12 feet away just on the other side of our wind break.

 

[rufus]

Different folks live in different situations. While some of us may have kinder, gentler, vegetarian coyotes, others of us have some pretty horrendous beasts to deal with. While it may be possible to fence a half acre or so, it is a different situation if you are running livestock on 3,000 acres.

A pack of coyotes can be the difference between keeping and losing the ranch. If the rancher is put out of business, the meat at Safeway will be a lot more expensive.

Rufus

 

[TheSitcomGirls]

"I don't recall who mentioned it here on BYC recently, but the person stated that the coyotoes , i think they said Maine were big and indeed part wolf..!"

The coyotes we have have on our farm are called Eastern Coyotes. I read that they were possibly created from the migration of Western Coyotes to Canada. Then the Western females breeding with male Canadian Wolves. When I saw the group of four coyotes the largest was easily the size of a German Shepard. His coat was grey and black, very little red. The other coyotes I have seen are reddish-brown, but with quite a bit of black guard hairs as well. I'm not sure if their behavior is any different than a Western coyote.

They do come pretty close to my neighbor's house as her house is pretty far in the woods. She has quite a few cats in her garage and they will go after them. What has been effective for her is an airhorn. It makes them go nuts. They yip and howl and then run away. They hate the sound.

 

[dacjohns]

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[aprophet]

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There was actually a National Geographic article on the subject a few months ago - in the Northeast, coyote-wolf hybrids are becoming more common.

Around here in NC, anyway, coyotes are definitely getting braver.

The funny colored yotes from alligator river refugee are making their way to NE NC and SE VA I know quiet a few guys working on the " problem " LOL

 

[DIYSeattle]

I live in Seattle and I see coyotes in teh city. I have seen them at 9 am sunning themselves on a grassy slope, about 5 of them. Ive also seenthem trotting down the street sides early in the mornings usually. They dont apparently have much fear of people anymore. That explains all the missing cat posters on the power poles.

Coyotes will not need to have rabies to bite or attack children especially. At night out in the woods I have had on several occasions a small pack of coyotes circling me outside the flashlight with my dog along. I dont know what their intentions were but my dog wouldnt go outside the light and the coyotes wouldnt come in close enough to the light to readily be seen.

In the midwest I used to see what was called there coydogs, coyote and dog mixes. They were colored differently and some were smaller and bigger than normal. I never tested them for DNA but it was apparent that they had some domestic dog in them. They were much less afraid of people even out int he more remote areas wehre there was fewer people.

Coyotes will lure a single or even more dogs away where they can be circled and tired out and easily defeated. If theres enough coyotes to circle them they can beat just about any dog regardless of size.

Coyotes perform a very valuable service to the ecosystem and keep carrion and other dead things cleaned up, and lower other pest populations naturally. However the subdivisions and other developements have offset their balances they hav ewitht heir need for range, and pack space. This along with their adaptability has brought them into our backyards where they occur in unnatural numbers in some places.

I have seen coyotes that have had so much mange and looked so terribly painful just to live. This comes from overcrowding, and if they are going into areas where people are they are likely overpopulated and may crash in a few years anyway, dying from disease or starvation etc.

 

[HLAC]

I have some of those vegetarian coyotes here!

The yotes come here every day but so far they haven't messed with the chickens. They did anihilate a patch of sweet corn. (4 rows.. 150' feet long) Not raccoons, not squirrels... it was the coyotes. They also eat the apples that fall from the trees. Weirdo things.
Meanwhile I shot 33 rabbits out of the garden this past summer. At least the darn yotes could eat some rabbits with their corn.

The yotes got really bold last winter and they started trying to get my dog. (not a little dog either, she's a 60lb black lab) We shot one yote and the rest got the idea to stay away.

They instant they start getting bold again... they'll catch a bullet.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I can imagine the coyotes having a sweet corn feast!!

My irish setter loves sweet corn. He will bring it to me to husk, then he holds the cob in his mouth and waits for me to turn the cob so he can scrape the kernels off with his back teeth. He ends up with corn everywhere!

 

[Q9]

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There was actually a National Geographic article on the subject a few months ago - in the Northeast, coyote-wolf hybrids are becoming more common.

Around here in NC, anyway, coyotes are definitely getting braver.

The funny colored yotes from alligator river refugee are making their way to NE NC and SE VA I know quiet a few guys working on the " problem " LOL

I can smell the burnt powder from here.

I'm just glad we haven't had any coyotes wandering around west/central NC, I haven't had enough practice with the .22 to deal with them - and yes, if any showed up in our woods, we would be dealing with them. There are quite a few small children in the area, and 'yotes would definitely be an issue.

I'm honestly surprised we haven't had any, as we've had some... interesting... incidents with other wildlife. Particularly the one time that we saw a deer running about the parking lot of a local pizza restaurant.